From dd12f48d4e8774415b528d3991ae47c28f26e1ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bhavesh P. Davda" Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:26:33 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] NPTL signal delivery deadlock fix This bug is quite subtle and only happens in a very interesting situation where a real-time threaded process is in the middle of a coredump when someone whacks it with a SIGKILL. However, this deadlock leaves the system pretty hosed and you have to reboot to recover. Not good for real-time priority-preemption applications like our telephony application, with 90+ real-time (SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR) processes, many of them multi-threaded, interacting with each other for high volume call processing. Acked-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/signal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index ca1186eef93..d282fea8113 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ static void handle_stop_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p) { struct task_struct *t; - if (p->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) + if (p->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) /* * The process is in the middle of dying already. */